I'm grateful to reader, Cumbrian Lad, who has pointed out something rather interesting.
The seminar mentioned in the previous post is being organised by the Science Media Centre, an organisation we have met before, since they also organised the "what shall we do about the sceptics" meeting reported here the other day.
What Cumbrian Lad has noticed is that the board of the Science Media Centre includes some very familiar names. Readers here will remember Philip Campbell, the editor of Nature who had to resign from the Russell panel. Those with sharper memories might also recall Mike Granatt, the PR man who is advising the Russell panel. Our old friend Bob Ward of the Grantham Institute will of course be familiar to everyone.
As Cumbrian Lad so rightly notes, it is an extraordinarily small world.
The board of the science media centre is as follows:
- Kenny Campbell, Editor, Metro
- Dr Philip Campbell, Editor-in-Chief, Nature
- Clive Cookson, Science Editor, Financial Times
- Dr Peter Cotgreave, Director of Public Affairs, Royal Society
- Carolan Davidge, Director of Press & PR, Cancer Research UK
- Mike Granatt CB FIPR, Partner, Luther Pendragon and former Director General of Goverment Information and Communication Service
- Philip Greenish, Chief Executive, Royal Academy of Engineering
- Professor Robin Lovell-Badge FRS, Head of Developmental Genetics, MRC National Institute for Medical Research
- Tom Miller, Director of Communications, Imperial College London and STEMPRA committee member
- Rebecca Morelle, Science and Nature reporter, BBC News Online
- Vivienne Parry, Writer, broadcaster and journalist
- Simon Pearson, Night Editor, The Times
- Dr Simon Singh, Science writer and broadcaster
- Ceri Thomas, Editor, Today, BBC Radio 4
- Bob Ward, Policy and Communications Director, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science
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